this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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[–] average650 44 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As has been asked every time, how many are bots?

[–] phamanhvu01 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] intelati 18 points 2 years ago

Exactly what a bot would say

[–] d00phy 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Me either. I am a human person just like all of you!

[–] ki77erb 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Welcome fellow human. It is great to be a human is it not?

[–] DAC_Protogen 8 points 2 years ago

floppy disk drive noises

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hello fellow human. I too identify as homo sapien.

[–] d00phy 3 points 2 years ago

So many of us good people. It is nice.

[–] grue 4 points 2 years ago

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess it's kind of like the saying bad ice effects both teams. Both reddit and the federation are going to have bots. Competitors aren't differentiating bot accounts vs user accounts, so why should the federation?

How many people browsed reddit without an account, but made one for lemmy to show support?
At least one.

[–] average650 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sure that reddit and others are aware of bots and doing things to control that situation.

[–] lemme_at_it 2 points 2 years ago

Musk complained and tried to worm his way out of the Twitter deal by accusing them of padding user accounts with bots. With an upcoming IPO, Reddit may not be interested in culling bots right now - not when some of us have already fleddit.😅

I do concur though, the fediverse does need to find a way of getting owners doing captcha or something similar by default.